Tuesday,.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
December 24, 1940.
TOOK DEAD MAN'S IDENTITY
German Landed In Britain
The story of a German Impersonating an Englishman, whose same appears on the roll of honour of a war memorial in a little Sussex village, was told at West London Police Court recently.
A man, described on the charge sheet as Ernst Ehrensperger (49), a German, alias Ernest Clark, of Avonmore Road, West Kensington, London, was sentenced to four months imprison- ment for landing in the United Kingdom without leave of the Immigration officer. He was furthor charged with falling to furnish to the registration officer particulars as set out in the schedule of the Allens Order.
Sentencing Ehrensperger, the; Magistrate, Mr Paul Bennett, K.C., remarked:-"To hear of i caso like thin causes me a certain amount of uneasiness. What happens to you eventually is none of my business."
Mr C. Melville, prosecuting, said: that this German came to England in 1933, and after registering at Bow Street in the name of Ehrensperger, German born at Munich, woa per- milted to remain until 1934, when he
the country. left
He had no permission to enter the! country since, added Mr Melville, but,
HOOVER
DAM
HURLS FLOOD
A mighty, man-made torrent of 30,000,000 gallons of water
to his own story, he re- last September, using the name of Ernest Lesile Clark, and a minute was recently unleased entering on a passport issued by the British Conmal in Ostend.
He was seen on August 14 by a detective-sergeant of the Special Branch, and he produced an identity card signed
in the name of Clark
from Hoover Dam.
A touch of a button created the spectacle, observed by more than 20,000 persons assembled for the fourth anniversary of
He also produced a birth certificate: power generation at the pro-
in that name,
"Police officers have made inquiries ject.
In a village in Sussex," said Mr Mel- ville, "and they have discovered that this Ernest Clark, whom he claims
Eleven Valves Open The button was pushed by Irving Harris, director of power, and it to be, was killed in action in the opened all but one of the 12 ginnt last war, In 1917.. His name is In-nutlet valves in the Boulder Canyon scribed on the war memorial, and his walls, brother is in Court.”
Each of the valves throws, un eight and one-half-foot stream of water.
The mighty cascade descends in a fall greater by 13 feet than that of world-famed Niagara.
Two Sets Of Lies Sergeant Garrelt told Mr Leslie Smith, defending, that at Bow Street In 1933, extradition proceedings were taken by the Berlin Police against Ehrensperger, but the case was dis
Like 41 well-planned, perfectly missed. Mr Smith declared that timed production of stage or screen Ehrensperger maintained that that the spectacle was unfolded as one was a trick to get him back because at a time the valves were opened. ho was politically opposed the Nazis.
Thunderous Voice
TEAMED FOR FIRST TIME
"LUCKY PARTNER," the Christmas attraction at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres, brings Gingor Rogers and Ronald Colman together in a picture for the first time. Above, thay are photograhed at the premiere of the film.
Opposed Draft Registration
American Divinity
Students Sentenced
The cascading water set up
STUBBORNLY rejecting the pleas of their prosecutor and rumbling rope. As additional valves. the court to change their minds and register, eight Union were opened the noise grew louder.Theological Seminary students were sentenced in New York re-
Ehrensperger had fold two sein of Hes to get into this country, because he was, in his own words, "a hunted Soon the dia blotted out all sound dog." He said that in his youth he gave its own thunderous voice. was known as Ernst Seldi, and lived Half of the valves open on the In Munich with his borents, who Nevada side of the project, the were wealthy. He was educated at the others on the Arizona section, the IIigh School, and subsequently ašį The casendes met in midair, Munich University.
No Birth Entry
Miso
feet above the stream bed, creating
a geyser which spattered water for
At the age of 21 he tried to get a thousands of feet, drenching many passport. No entry of his birth in spectators and producing a a heavy Germany could be found, and his re-mist whfel made it necessary for quent was refused. His parents told motorists around the area to bring hhin that they had adopted him when | windshield wipers into action. 10 was three when they visited Eng- and that his real name
was
Engineers See Test
A glinting sun shining through the miat produced double rainbows in When in Britain in 1936 he ex-profusion, adding to the lavishness umined the Somerset House Records, of the show. and obtained 21 copy of the birth eertificate of a man named Ernest & special delegation of Los Angeles The valve opening, witnessed by Leulle Clark, who was born in a vil-engineers flying over the damn in a lage near Ticehurst, Sussex, because TWA. aleliner, was held as a test
cently to a year and a day each'for violation of the Selective Ser-
vice uct.
On the recommendation of U.S. Attorney Cahill, however, Federal Judge Mandelbaum instructed the defendants that if at any time during the serving of the terms any of them decided to change their minds and register, the court would then be will- ing to entertain a motion for reduction of gentence.
Cahill made a lengthy statement
to the court pointing out that the defendants, as divinity students, were exempt from conscription from the start. He cited the fact that they had nevertheless refused to register and emphasised that subsequently they had been given every possible opportunity to sign up in accordance
law. with the "They
hey have, however, persisted in and continue to persist in their re- fusal to
he thought it was probably himself. | operation to make, certain they are obvious roster" he added, with
He still genuinely believed that his all in working order and ready to be name was Clark, but coukl not prove utilised-in-cam-of-emergency.
Harris. emphasized at the brief
I
"In view of these facts, It is the recommendation of the US attorney that they be sen- tenced to a year and a day in a
Mr Bennett sald that there was not ceremony that contrary to some re-federal penitentiary."
document which could cheek parts the dam is not closed to the Ehrensperger's story.
public, spectators being freely wel- comed at any time.
UNITED ECONOMIC FRONT
To Protect
Investments
More Nazis For Prague
AMERICA PLANS MASS DRILLS Cure Bulging -Waistlines
Ples for Loniency
Public parks and squares In Kenneth Walzer, aftorney for the the United States may soon pro- defendants, told the court that his vide the spectacle of ordinary clients had not asked him to plead for leniency, but that he was asking citizens vigorously knee-bending that they be given suspended sen- and arm-stretching beneath the tences, nevertheless, in behalf of stern eyes of Federal physical their parents and as an officer of the training instructors.
court.
Ho pointed out that the students
has
President Roosevelt, has de- had dedicated their lives to religion cided that there are too many and that they could not participate bulging waistlines and flabby in mass killing of human beings muscles in the United States and under any circumstances.
called the Philadelphia Judge Mandelbaum, deeply moved.
Democratic leader and former said, in a quaverini vakce.
Olympic sculling champion, John. B. Kelly, to the White House to discuss the possibility of or- ganising a mass physical train- ing scheme to supplement the national defence programme.
Another 30,000 Germans are to be billeted on the citizens of Prague. The city is now very congested, but reports which have reached London show that the Government of the Protec- torate will order the removal of all Czechs whose residence in NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UP)-A Prague is not considered to be united economic front between the United States and Great Britain so essential. protect investments in the Latin: Czech women are being refused to give cach American Republics was urged re-admittance to the Prague maternity cently by Eugene P. Thomas, pre-hospital, where many beds have Ger- sident of the National Foreign Trade | been prepared specially for Council.
The programme, he said, should be The growth of the German popula- Hnked with defence measures. One tion, of Prague is an advantage to of the chief tasks in such an economie members of the Vlajka, the German- front, he added, would be to relleve controlled Fascist organisation, who the Latin-American countries of surare not depressed by the follure of pluses.
their recently attempted coup,
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POLICEMAN SAVES
PILOT, GIVEN THE O.B.E.
Arthur Hendon Cole is a ser- geant in the Kent Special Cons- tabulary. A recent London Gazette told that he had been. awarded the medal of the Civil Divialon of the Order of the British Empire.
And this is why:-
"An aircraft of the ILA.F., taking
No Legal Basis "There is no legal basis for their failure to register as 10,000,000 or 17,000,000 others have done. But I ter them even now the opportunity to change their minds."
Then he ordered their names read Lo an opportunity change his stand.
Stood Firm But each, in turn, stood firm, and there was a ripple of approval from the spectators including many re- latives and fellow students,
Those sentenced were:-
Both Mr Roosevelt and Mr Willkio, the defented Republican candidate for the Presidency, complained In speeches that the country had gone saft and need toughening.
Army offleers complained that dur- ing recent manoeuvres men of the National Guard were exhausted after In five-mile march.
football coaches have com- College plained for nearly a decade that the youth of the country was developing Donald Benedict. 23, Newark, N. rubber legs through the habit of Albian College graduate.
Richard Wichiel, 21. Binghamton. graduate of Syracuse Univeralty.
Willam N. Lovell. 20, Poughkeepsie, president of the Union Theological student body and graduate of Yale.
David Dellinger, 25. Wakefield, Mass, Yale graduate.
Meredith Dallas, 23, Grosse Polni, Mich,
Albion graduate.
George M. Häuser, 24. Denver, Univer. Isity of Denver graduate.
Joseph G. Bevilacqua, 24, Buffalo, Tufts graduate,
Howard E. Spragt. 23, Malden, Mass., Turis graduate,
Spain Agrees To Take Less Oil
never walking even a few yards if riding were possible.
Argentine's Anti-Nazi Demand
A telegram to the Minister of the measures Interior urging drastic
against alleged Nazi activities in the territory of Misiones, In the north-
off from Biggin Hill airfield, crashed It is learned in London that east of the Argentine, was recently
and turned over in the garden of the agreement had been reached printed prominently in the Buonos house next to that occupied by Ser-with the Spanish Government, Ayres newspapers.
The
geant Cole,
telegram came from the Secre- The pilot was trapped and hang- limiting the amount of future oll tary-General of the Action Argention, ing by his harness upside down. Imports into Spain.
apro-democratis organisation at Cole fan, to his assistance and, The agreement is belloved to be Posados, the capital of the territory, although expecting the aircraft to based on Spanish all consumption and declared: catch fire and blow up at any mo- during the pro-civil war (perlod as "The citizens have decided no ment, he freed the pilot from his gear modified by present conditions, longer to tolerate daily aftronts by
re and dragged him away, saving his While allowing Spain adequate misguided elements who are polluting
quanuities for home consumption, it the district like a disease."/ The aircraft caught fire, and the way leave no nil to spare, which Clashes between Nazis and Accion patrol: tank exploded a minute or two might find its way to Germany or Argentina are feared, and the Nazis I after the pilot had been released!!!
Qaro reported to be accumulating arms.
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